vnc resolution in console

[tonix]

hi everyone,
it seems to me that this thread / problem has not yet resolution,

i just fresh installed 3.1 and upgraded to 3.2 with pve subscription, it seems that all the guest console are using 1024x768 screen resolution, and the bottom of the console screen is not visibile on a macbooc pro 13.3. Sorry for that, but this is a huge problem, because on a linux guest in text mode (slax for instance) you can't use cfdisk because the menu is at the bottom of the screen. Windows console the same, i'm not able to see the windows 2012 bottom bar and is not possible to change the resolution to something lower 1024x768


Is there a solution whitout using spice protocol? Open a guest console via web interface is one of the best feature of proxmox for a sysadmin..

thanks for your attention

tonix

 

[Mr.Holmes]

Hello tonix

it seems that all the guest console are using 1024x768 screen resolution, and the bottom of the console screen is not visibile on a macbooc pro 13.3

As far as I know macbook pro 13.3´s screen resolution is 2560 x 1600! Does it mean just the VNCs pop up window is so small? The pop up window has exactly the client´s resolution (and cannot be enlarged). I have seen the follwing effect: if guest enlarges its resolution during start up process the pop up window does not follow automatically - in that case clicking of "Reload" on top right of pop up window helps.

Guest resoltion depends on guest software, respectively how it treats the virtual graphic card. The graphic card can be choosen in proxmox web GUI, I made best expierences as follows:

- Windows guests: "standard VGA"

- LINUX guests: "VMware"

As browser I use Firefox - I cannot say how it behaves in other browsers.

There exists also an alternative to using web-browser as VNC client - see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Vnc_2.0 and http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/18236-vnc-password

By the way: SPICE works excellent for Windows 7, but in other cases (LINUX, WINDOWS 8) I had better experiences with VNC.


All the best!

Mr.Holmes